Jasmine Baskerville- The mystery in beauty

Is beauty beautiful because it is mysterious and alluring? If we find out more about the beautiful object does it lose significance? Why is art mysterious?
Art is mysterious and perplexing because it does not provide enough insight to the artist mindset, it lacks a definitive answer, and is nonconforming. We never seen anything like it. According to Albert Einstein, “the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science”. What Einstein means in the quote is that real beauty comes from challenging yourself to find out more.
Beauty is what first catches our eye. Learning more about it does not mean it loses any beauty. However, gaining knowledge of it may cause the object of beauty to lose psychological value. The object can still have aesthetic value since it is independent of psychological value. For example, a new relationship is mysterious, thrilling, and fun. Several years later some of the thrill about getting to know each other fades. The relationship losses psychological value but not necessarily aesthetic value.
Mystery is a key component to beauty but mystery does not always mean beautiful. Ugly things can be mysterious too. So, there must be additional characteristic of beauty. Beauty is atypical, mysterious, creative, nostalgic, etc.

As a closing remark, beauty is beautiful because it is surrounded by mystery but it is not the only reason it is beautiful. Beauty comes from a number of characteristics and does not lose any aesthetic value when more information is uncovered but can lose psychological value.

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